'Wanna hook up?' Lovelorn romeo tries to make a date with the whole of Doncaster Council

A lovelorn romeo sent a message to Doncaster Council telling the authority: "Wanna hook up?"

Doncaster Council shared the photo of the bizarre request through their Facebook page.

The council shared a photo of the exchange on Twitter - and how they politely batted off their would-be suitor.

‘Yes yes. Bby. Wanna hook up’, the anonymous user messaged.

Flattered, but gently knocking back the potential date, the Council replied: ‘It’s kind of you to offer but, you know, we’re a Metropolitan Borough Council providing the majority of local government services in Doncaster.’

The authority later tweeted: "It's nice to see people truly appreciating some of the many services we offer as a council, to the point of them wanting to thank us in person."

When one user suggested that the message was a ‘mating’ request, DMBC dismissed the notion.

‘Mating?? We though they just wanted to sit down for a cuppa and talk about how wonderful LED streetlights are?’, they responded.

Another user joked: ‘You should’ve said “Sorry, we are in a complicated relationship with 300,000 people”’.

And it seems that others were rather jealous of the apparent affection, with the town of Sudbury in Suffolk wanting in on it.